thanx Howard.. I'll try taking out the mem stix... and doing what you said..

I must be in the right place, you actually seemed to know already that I do not indeed have a floppy drive!!
As I see them as a waiste of time.. that said, I probably have a few knocking around somewhere..

I'll get back to you.. just so you know.. the blue screen errors thus far have been :-

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
had a few about a driver but it was so general I didnt write it down
PFN_LIST_CORRUPT
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
BAD_POOL_CALLER

thats it for the blue screens, which only appeared after I disabled the auto re-boot.. with that on, it just randomly re-booted all the time, every few minutes.. move the mouse, re-boot, brwosing the net, reboot, launch a game, reboot.. etc etc etc

Other errors i am getting are..

Playing wolf online, whole thing locks up and it says somethign like ' Youre graphix card stopped responding to something or other, switching to software rendering - but it keeps doing this untill it reboots

that NT message form the wormblaster virus, I get that from time to time.. and no welchia worm in my system.

another error was trying to write to read only??

Norton anti virus sometimes keeps playing up and telling me I am not protected.. so I have to launch it maually..

anyway, as said.. I'll do the whoe in depth shabang list later if I cant solve it